List of Muslim historians

This is a subarticle of Islamic scholars, List of Muslim scholars and List of historians.

A list of Islamic historians includes:

Chronological list

"Chase F. Robinson" in "Islamic Historiography" has mentioned the chronological list of Islamic historians.

The historians of the formative period

First class: 700-750 (Ibn Zubayr and al-Zuhri's histories no longer exist, but they are referenced in later works).

• Urwah ibn Zubayr (died in 712 CE)
• Al-Zuhri (died in 742 CE)

Second class: 750-800

• Ibn Ishaq (d. 761) - Sirah Rasul Allah (The Life of the Apostle of God)
• Abi Mikhnaf (d. 157 AH - 774 CE) - Maqtal al-Husayn
• Sayf ibn Umar (d. 796)

Third class: 800-860

• Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (d. 819)
• Al-Waqidi (d. 207 A.H. /823CE) - Kitab al-Tarikh wa'l-Maghazi (Book of History and Battles).
• Al-Madaini (d. 830-850)
• Ibn Hisham (d. 835)
• Ibn Sa'd (d. 845)
• Khalifa ibn Khayyat (d. 854)

Fourth class: 860-900

• Ibn Abd al-Hakam (d. 871) - Futuh Misr wa'l-Maghrib wa akhbaruha
• Umar ibn Shabba (d. 878)
• Al-Haysam ibn Adi (d. 882)
• Ibn Qutaybah (d. 889) - Uyun al-akhbar, Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa^[1]
• Al-Dinawari (d. 891) - Akbar al-tiwal
• Baladhuri (d. 892)

Fifth class: 900-950

• Ya'qubi (d. 900) - Tarikh al-Yaqubi
• Ibn Fadlan (d. after 922)
• Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838CE - 923CE) - History of the Prophets and Kings
• Ibn A'tham (d. 314/926-27) - al-Futuh
• Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī (d. 945)

The historians of the classical period

Iraq and Iran

• Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (d. 946)
• Ali al-Masudi (d. 955) - The Meadows of Gold
• Sabit ibn Sinan al-Sabi (d. 976)
• al-Saghani (d. 990), one of the earliest historians of science
• Ibn Miskawayh (d. 1030)
• al-Utbi (d. 1036)
• Hilal ibn al-Muhassin al-Sabi' (d. 1056)
• al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d. 1071) - Tarikh Baghdad (a biographical dictionary of major Baghdadi figures)
• Abolfazl Beyhaqi (995-1077) - Tarikh-e Mas'oudi (also known as "Tarikh-e Beyhaqi").^[1]
• Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (d. 1083)
• Ibn al-Imrani (d. 1184)
• Zahir al-Din Nishapuri (d. 1187)
• Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201)
• Ali ibn al-Athir (1160 - 1231) - al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh
• Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi (d. 1242)
• Ibn al-Sa'i (d. 1276)
• Hamdollah Mostowfi (d. 1281)
• Ibn Bibi (d. after 1281)
• Ata al-Mulk Juvayni (1283)
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (d. after 1302)
• Ibn al-Fuwati (d. 1323)
• Wassaf (d. 1323)
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (d. 1398) - Jami al-Tawarikh
• Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (d. 1454)
• Mirkhond (d. 1498) - Rauzât-us-safâ

Egypt and Syria

• Al-Musabbihi (d. 1030)
• Ibn al-Sayrafi (d. 1147)
• Ibn al-Qalanisi (d. 1160)
• Ibn Asakir (d. 1176)
• Usamah ibn Munqidh (d. 1188)
• Imad al-Din al-Isfahani (d. 1201)
• Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (d. 1231)
• Baha al-Din ibn Shaddad (d. 1235) - al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya (The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin)
• al-Kalabi (d.1237)
• Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256) - Mir'at al-zaman (Mirror of the Time)
• Ibn al-Adim (d. 1262)
• Abu Shama (d. 1267)
• Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282)
• Ibn Abd al-Zahir (d. 1292)
• Baybars al-Mansuri (d. 1325)
• Abu'l-Fida (d. 1331)
• al-Nuwayri (d. 1332)
• Ibn al-Dawadari (d. after 1335)
• al-Mizzi (d. 1341)
• al-Dhahabi (d. 1348) - Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir
• al-Safadi (d. 1363)
• Ibn Kathir (d. 1373) - al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya (The Beginning and the End)
• Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405)
• al-Maqrizi (d. 1442) - al-Suluk li-ma'firat duwwal al-muluk (Mamluk history of Egypt)
• Ibn Hajr al-Asqalani (d. 1449)
• al-Ayni (d. 1451)
• Ibn Taghribirdi (d. 1470) - Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira (History of Egypt)
• al-Sakhawi (d. 1497)
• al-Suyuti (d. 1505) - History of the Caliphs

al-Andalus and the Maghreb

• Qadi al-Nu'man (d. 974)
• Ibn al-Qūṭiyya (d. 977) - Ta'rikh iftitah al-Andalus
• Ibn Faradi (d. 1012)
• Ibn Hazm (d. 1063)
• Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr (d. 1071)
• Ibn Hayyan (d. 1075)
• al-Udri (d. 1085)
• Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī (d. 1094)
• Qadi Iyad (d. 1149)
• Mohammed al-Baydhaq (d. 1164)
• Ibn Idhari (d. 1312)
• Ibn al-Khatib (d. 1374)
• Ibn Abi Zar (d. ca. 1320) - Rawd al-Qirtas
• Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (d. 1406)
• Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) - al-Muqaddimah and al-I'bar

India

• al-Bīrūnī (d. 1048) - Kitab fi Tahqiq ma li'l-Hind (Researches on India), The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries
• Minhaj-i-Siraj (d. after 1259)
• Amir Khusro (d. 1325)
• Isami (d. after 1350) - Futuh al-Salatin
• Ziauddin Barani (d. 1357)

The post-classical historians

Turkish

• Aşıkpaşazade (d. 1481)
• Mehmed Neşrî (d. before 1520)
• Hoca Sadeddin Efendi (d. 1599)
• Mustafa Ali (d. 1600)
• Mustafa Selaniki (d. 1600)
• Katip Çelebi (d. 1647)
• İbrahim Peçevi (d. 1650)
• Mustafa Naima (1655-1716) - Ta'rīkh-i Na'īmā
• Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga (d. 1723)
• Ahmed Resmî Efendi (d. 1783)
• Ahmet Cevdet Pasha (d. 1895)

Arabic

• Ibn Iyas (d. after November 1522)
• Shams al-Din ibn Tulun (d. 1546)
• Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (d. 1632)
• Mohammed al-Ifrani (d. 1747)
• Mohammed al-Qadiri (d. 1773)
• Ahmad al-Damurdashi (d. after 1775)
• Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (d. 1825) - Aja'ib al-athar fi'l-tarajim wa'l-akhbar
• Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (d. 1897)

Persian

• Hasan Beg Rumlu (d. after 1550)
• Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (d. 1602) - Akbarnama
• Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (d. 1615)
• Firishta (d. 1620)
• Iskandar Beg Munshi (d. 1632)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad (d. 1621)
• Inayat Allah Kamboh (d. 1671)
• Muhammad Saleh Kamboh (d. ca. 1675)
• Abul Fazl Mamuri (c. 1700)
• Khafi Khan (d. after 1733) - Muntakhib-ul-lubab
• Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi (d. c. 1760)
• Ghulam Husain Tabatabai (d. after 1781)

See also

• List of Islamic studies scholars

Notes

References

• Robinson, Chase F. (2003), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521629365 : XIV and XV